The Cherryvale Historical Museum receives funding to collect and preserve the stories of Vietnam War vets in the community.
The $1,600 comes from Humanities Kansas as a part of the second phase of “Kansas Stories of the Vietnam War,” which is their oral history initiative focused on the stories of veterans as they began to return home from the war.In 2018, twelve different communities participated in a similar project and recorded 74 oral histories from Kansas veterans from the Vietnam War. These stories have been archived locally, as well as at the Kansas Historical Society and the Library of Congress Veterans Oral History collection.
Humanities Kansas is a non-profit formed in 1972 and encourages Kansans to draw on diverse histories, literatures, and cultures to strengthen our democracy, communities, and connections to one another. Learn more about the group at their website humanitieskansas.org.
